US teenager found guilty in school shooting plot

BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma (AP) — A teenager who authorities say tried to recruit classmates for a mass shooting and bomb attack at his U.S. school has been convicted in a plot to kill students, teachers and police officers.

A jury found 19-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez guilty of planning to cause bodily harm and recommended a 30-month prison term and $5,000 fine. The jury found him not guilty of conspiring to perform an act of violence.

Chavez was arrested in December, hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults before killing himself. A string of mass shootings in recent years have fueled a divisive debate over...

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The Learning Network Blog: Found Poem Favorite | ‘Architects’

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times MoMA expects to have the building demolished by the end of this year. Go to related article »

This poem, one of 12 winners of our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest, was written by Alison, 23, from Boston. The poem comes from the article “12-Year-Old Building at MoMA Is Doomed”.

Check back every day through June 12 to read the work of another winner.

Architects

As children, we borrowed feelings of loss
as we envisioned that new, vacant parcel
of Manhattan skyline, towers demolished.
We built stories of that place, the lives,
ambitious in the heights of our preservation.

12 years later, school completed, we start out.
We finance our hopes with thoughtful work
and solid looking facades. We are a generation
keeping with history. We are a temporary time
and a temporary space, but we are still being.

Want to read all the winning poems since this contest began in 2010? Visit our Found Poem Favorite collection.

And don’t forget our Summer Reading Contest, which begins June 14.

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The Learning Network Blog: Found Poem Favorite | ‘Things to See’

Seth Kugel An Adriatic view on the Albanian coast is just one experience found by getting off the planned path. Go to related article »

This poem, one of 12 winners of our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest, was written by Brian, 16, from Hauppauge, N.Y. The poem comes from the article “Going Off the Itinerary and Finding Lifelong Memories”.

Check back every day through June 12 to read the work of another winner.

Things to See

A picturesque beach town — white sand.
Mountain roads, dirt roads, rocky roads.

An approaching stranger, a low-end rental car,
Around a curve, came into view not far.
I hesitated.

Unknown, unplanned, off script.
Should I wait? Should I give up?
I often chicken out.

No.
Travel. Wander.
I drummed up the courage.

I had things to see.

Want to read all the winning poems since this contest began in 2010? Visit our Found Poem Favorite collection.

And don’t forget our Summer Reading Contest, which begins June 14.

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